Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Or is it time to move on from this quaint relic of past times? The Editorial Board Roundtable takes up its quills and weighs ...

I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ... eventually you got to use a pen instead of a pencil. I remember being stoked to write in thin lines of indelible blue ink ...

To the editor: For years, cursive writing has not been taught in public schools ("Have we forgotten how to say thank you?" March 19). Three of my four grandchildren cannot read a letter that I ...

But research shows that putting pen to paper plays a crucial role in literacy ... do today’s kids really need it? White said both cursive and manuscript—writing unconnected letters—have advantages.

Although it looked like cursive, each letter was printed ... was sloped at a greater angle than normal writing. It led to the development a new pen holder called an oblique. To demonstrate their ...

is excited to announce the return of the Cursive is Cool contest, encouraging students from kindergarten through sixth grade ...